![]() But that doesn’t make what we’re sitting through any more interesting. Yes, it’s obvious that this terrorist plot will inevitably somehow intersect with the Picard/Jack/Vadic storyline, a fact that’s made even more clear by the sudden appearance of Worf to rescue Raffi after she’s forced to fall off the narcotics wagon in an attempt to prove her street cred to a Ferengi source named Sneed. It doesn’t help that Picard has pinned this subplot on the weakest character remaining on the canvas. But, at the moment, this storyline seems so utterly isolated from everything else we’re watching that it’s hard to care about what the answers are. Which is, on the surface, an absolutely noble effort, and something we’d expect from pretty much any Starfleet officer. In a completely predictable twist, Raffi does not in any way do that and instead insists that she’s going to find out the truth on her own. “disengage”, get it?) from the investigation. Her undercover work leads her to believe that the low-level Romulan criminal Starfleet’s trying to blame the tragedy on was most likely not responsible and she’s furious when her hilariously dry handler insists that she back off (i.e. She spends most of the episode trying to find out why Starfleet has terminated the investigation into last week’s horrific terrorist attack. Unsurprisingly, Raffi’s story remains the weakest part of the episode (and of season 3) thus far. Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Episode 1 Review – The Next Generation By Lacy Baugher While one has to assume there’s more to his story than we currently know, there’s also every indication this show is going to take its sweet time unraveling whatever that is. Part of the problem is that Ed Speleers’ Jack Crusher isn’t a particularly compelling character as of yet, and the idea that he’s being chased by a powerful enemy because he’s just a charming roguish smuggler who loves his mom isn’t either. ![]() It’s difficult to imagine that the episode that includes the long-awaited return of The Next Generation alum Michael Dorn, features a brief but wildly emotional (and entirely nonverbal!) reunion between Jean-Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher, and reveals that the two had a secret love child that Picard never knew about could be boring, but…it’s kind of true. “Disengage” is an hour that not only takes forever to reveal a plot twist we all pretty much guessed last week, but it’s also full of the sort of laborious table setting that isn’t particularly fun to watch. Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Episode 2ĭespite the fact that Star Trek: Picard seems to have finally realized that what the people always wanted from this series was a mature version of Star Trek: The Next Generation that wrestled with maturity, legacy, and the way even the closest relationships can change over the course of a lifetime, the series continues to be plagued by pacing issues in its second episode. This Star Trek: Picard review contains spoilers.
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